Film Making: World of Visual

I was going through some of my old stuff , like photos and videos. And i found some old rushins. Which i(we) shot for a competition, when i was animation student, but that shoot was for live action short film. A professional film maker, who came to give us insight on film making and editing, asked us to make a short film, shoot it in 6 hrs and edit it and show him. Now there were total four team, all consist of creative and talented people. So when time came to show, we were with incomplete film. We had shot the whole film but it was still to be rendered . So we showed our film directly from software. Guess what despite being having crapy print of video(it was recorded from mobile cam) and incomplete film we were judged as best film. So I asked him why did he did so? And his answer is the reason why i am writing this post.

The reason he gave was, even with incomplete film , people really enjoyed the visuals and they were able to connect with it. Suddenly it made me realize, that I(and most of people) do judge good film in this way but, have never considered this as a rule.  And that's what film making is about. Its about the visual story and it doesn't mater whats on screen, all that maters is viewer getting hooked to it. A film analyst once showed in his research that film with good visual content are often liked by people. With good visual content, i mean, the way character in film portray story without dialogues and sound. He experimented this by watching a good movie(and some bad movies) in full mute mode. He watched movies like Finding Nemo,Titanic, Roadside Romeo etc. Try yourself watching a good movie and a bad movie in mute. You will know what i am talking about. Even majority of good short film seldom have dialogues. A movie with good visuals attracts all types of viewers, and suddenly their genre choices vanishes.

I will end this post with good film example. "No Country for Old Men" is film which has no background score for most of time. But then also mouse and cat chase was so nicely showed nobody felt it was missing.